Director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak, is the latest guest on #TellGordeeva.
In this episode: Loshak's childhood in Odessa, the story of an ideal museum, a candid response to the question "Are you afraid of losing your position?" and, for the first time, an incredibly sincere account of what her relationship with her predecessor, Irina Antonova, was really like.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts — /theartsmuseum
Katerina Gordeeva — /catherinagordeeva
A big thank you to the YouTube channel Oh My Art for providing the videos.
Contents:
00:00 Marina Loshak's office
03:22 How Loshak came to the museum where Irina Antonova was the host
08:01 Why not Zelfira Tregulova.
09:33 “The wife, of course, is my favorite, and there's someone livelier running around.”
12:00 “We lived the ‘Theatrical Novel’”
13:19 “I grew up in an atmosphere of total love”.
15:22 About Antonova's farewell: “I tried to imagine her feelings”.
19:04 Irina Antonova's son Boris: what will happen to him after her death
20:58 “I don't want and can't be Irina Antonova”.
25:14 “Skeletons in the closet” of the Pushkin Museum
30:30 “The museum must restore and show.”
33:19 “Bill Viola's exhibition.
35:38 “I will not sign any political letters.”
38:00 On her relationship with her daughter Anna Mongait.
42:23 “Kira Muratova's films are not about Odessa.”
44:53 On jovial women.
47:16 “There are almost no intelligent people left”.
49:54 Three museums in Russia with their own face
51:50 “We immediately found ourselves on our own in Moscow.”
56:30 “I am a man who can create.”
58:09 “The key word is ‘sincerely’.”
1:01:15 How and in what role Loshak worked in one of the first commercial banks in Russia.
1:04:20 Loshak's favorite room in the Pushkin Museum
1:06:30 “I'm wildly lazy.”
1:07:41 “It would be a pig if I left.”
1:10:45 “Construction of the Century”
1:12:00 “What to do with the Khabarovsk airport building.
1:14:55 “It all depends on how much I want it.”
1:16:40 “The threshold of aggression is very high.”
1:18:18 “A prank in a Dutch museum.
1:20:50 “Being inappropriate in a museum is very bad.”
1:21:42 Museum director's nightmare.
1:23:29 How much does the Pushkin Museum earn?
1:24:52 The most visited exhibitions in the world
1:28:36 Blitz